Word: profiteers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Hollywood is more demanding than any critic; it looks for quality only on a profit statement. There, through good movies and bad, action films and comedies, Arnold gets four stars. His pictures can use a strong premise, but they don't need high-priced supporting players; his aura is enough. (Quick, name the second-billed actor of The Terminator, Commando, Predator or Total Recall.) He also has the respect -- maybe even the fear -- of the front-office boys, because he gets involved in every aspect of production and promotion...
Leading the resistance to the American invasion has been France and its Culture Minister, Jack Lang, a longtime Yankee basher who has proclaimed, "Our destiny is not to become the vassals of an immense empire of profit." Spurred by Lang, who has gone so far as to appoint a rock-'n'-roll minister to encourage French rockers, non-French programming is limited to 40% of available air time on the state-run radio stations. But even Alain Finkelkraut, the highbrow French essayist and critic who is no friend of pop culture, concedes, "As painful...
...board contends that Arthur Young, which later merged with Ernst & Whinney, improperly allowed the thrift to show a pretax profit in 1987 by violating generally accepted accounting principles. The firm, which severed its ties to Lincoln in 1988, denies this. Possible penalties include loss or suspension of license, or probation. "Audit firms are under pressure to please the client," says deputy attorney general Michael Granen. "They've got to learn to just...
...table wine as a liquid form of food and as "the beverage of moderation." Yet the industry remains on the defensive, in part because some major members have divided loyalties. Despite its increased production of varietals, E. & J. Gallo, the nation's largest wine producer by far, earns considerable profit from Thunderbird, a cheap, fortified beverage that winos call "sneaky pete." And some corporate proprietors of prestigious wineries -- such as Britain's Grand Metropolitan or Hiram Walker, which owns Clos du Bois -- have major investments in hard liquor...
Climatic extremes ensure that many of the wines produced in the South and Northeast will never be more than marginal in quality. To make a profit, however, vintners must charge premium prices for what, realistically, is vin ordinaire. But for the Adventurous Oenophile and his ilk, the discovery of a promising little Merlot from North Carolina (try Biltmore's) or a delicate Eiswein from Michigan (taste one from Chateau Grand Traverse) will always be worth the cost...